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FAITHLESS 

NELLY 

GRAY 

A PATHETIC BALLAD 
JVritten by THOMAS HOOD 

The text illuminated and explained 

by numerous original drawings 

By ROBERT SEAFER 




BOSTON & NEfT YORK 

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY 

The Riverfide Prefs, Cambridge 

ANN. DOM. MCMVII 



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wo Copies Received 

SEP 13 J90f 

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CLASS A ' XXc/no. 
COPY 8. 






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COPYRIGHT 1907 BY ROBERT SEAVER 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 



DEDICATED 

WITH MUCH AFFECTION 

TO 

M. C. S. 

THE THIRD IDLER 



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Ben Battle was a soldier 

bold, 
And used to war's alarms; 
But a cannon-ball took off 

his legs, 
So he laid down his arms! 
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Now as they bore him off 

the field, 
Said he, ^'Let others shoot, 
For here I leave my second 

leg, 
And the Forty-second Foot! " 



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The army-surgeons made 
him limbs: 

Said he, " They 're only pegs : 

But there 's as wooden mem- 
bers quite, 

As represent my legs!" 
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Now Ben he loved a pretty 

maid, 
Her name was Nelly Gray; 
So he went to pay her his 

devours, 
When he devoured his pay ! 
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But when he called on Nel- 
ly Gray, 

She made him quite a scoff; 

And when she saw his wood- 
en legs, 

Began to take them off! 
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"Oh, NellyGray! Oh,Nelly 

Gray! 
Is this your love so warm? 
The love that loves a scarlet 



coat 
Should be more uniform ! " 
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Said she, '^I loved a soldier 

once, 
For he was blithe and brave; 
But I will never have a 

man 
With both legs in the grave ! 
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"Before you had those tim- 
ber toes, 

Your love I did allow; 

But then, you know, you 
stand upon 

Another footing now!" 
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"Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly 
Gray! 

For all your jeering speech- 
es, 

At duty's call I left my legs 

In Badajos's breaches!'''' 
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"Why then," said she, 
"you've lost the feet 

Of legs in war's alarms. 

And now you cannot wear 
your shoes 

Upon your feats of arms!" 

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" Oh, false and fickle Nelly 

Gray! 
I know why you refuse: 
Though I Ve no feet — some 

other man 
Is standing in my shoes! 
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" I wish I ne'er had seen 

your face; 
But, now, a long farewell ! 
Foryou will be my death; — 

alas ! 
You will not be my Nell!^^ 

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Now when he went from 

Nelly Gray, 
His heart so heavy got, 
And life was such a burthen 



grown. 
It made him take a knot! 
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So round his melancholy 

neck 
A rope he did entwine, 
And, for his second time in 

life. 
Enlisted in the Line ! 
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One end he tied around a 

beam, 
And then removed his pegs, 
And, as his legs were off, — 

of course. 
He soon was off his legs! 
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A dozen men sat on his 



corp 



se. 



To find out why he died, — 
And they buried Ben in 

four cross-roads, 
With a sta^e in his inside! 

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